Rhachiella, Aspöck & Aspöck & Johnson & Donga & Duelli, 2020
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.7 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:82D8C720-6938-4AF2-9186-491F07053EC8 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4327851 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/996C842D-D937-FFE6-FF5D-FAEFD2C024A6 |
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
scientific name |
Rhachiella |
status |
gen. nov. |
Genus Rhachiella gen. nov.
Type species (by present designation): Rhachiella malawica spec. nov.
Diagnosis. Head with flat vertex, slightly inflated genae, scape twice as long as broad. Pronotum approximately rectangular. Apices of wings rounded. Radius and Media free to wing base. Male with penisfilum; female with pseudohypocaudae having two apical processes.
Description: With the characters of the type species.
Systematics: Rhachiella gen. nov. is the sister-group of Mucroberotha with the long penisfilum of the males as a synapomorphy. Rhachiberotha + (Mucroberotha + Rhachiella gen. nov.) constitute the sister-group of Hoel- zeliella.
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